Famous quotes by Psychologists

"We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical, there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Hence, even in the domain of natural science, the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"In Aristotle, the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"To fail is a natural consequence of trying. To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole"

David Viscott, Psychologist

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